--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Individuality is a very curious delusion. When > identification of consciousness with mind ceases, > there is no longer an individual. Everything goes on > as before, but there is no longer a "doer" or > "decider" who has intent. There's just nobody home. > The individual doesn't even become "unbounded." "You" > simply cease to exist. > -Peter > ****
I think this is a too general simplification. The term individual has many aspects to it. I would say that when the identification of consciousness with mind ceases, there is not anymore an ego as a contraction of awareness, who wants to be somebody and wants to be seen as somebody. When that entity ceases to exist, you have no need to be seen as enlightened, something special, superior to others. Rather you see the same life force in others as in you. Still there is a clear sense of individuality left. An I, who observes, makes interpretations, creates plans, acts, and reacts, and often quite differently than the others. And intents there are still on the gross level. But one realizes that you cannot have intents or control the impulses on the subtlest level. This has always been the case, you just become aware of it. And possibly you learn to constructively co-operate with those impulses. If you resist those impulses or you cannot consciously contain them ( this is quite often the case), they can get acted out in odd or disastrous ways. In this light, and with this kind of experience, I have very difficult to understand the TM-siddhi techniques at all. Irmeli To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
